Wednesdays
I’m going to re-name Wednesday “Crazy-day.” For some reason, most of the activites we are involved in decided to congregate in one spot on the weekly calendar. Here’s what our Wednesdays now consist of:
9:00 to 11:00 am – Ladies Bible Study
11:30 am to 12:45 pm – Any errands like library or post office, then home for a quick lunch and to correct the schoolwork the kids did in the nursery while I was at Bible Study.
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm – Our group science class
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm – Our group Latin class
3:15 pm – Hop in the van and drive 1/2 hour to Chewelah for -
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm – Natalie’s ballet class
Home again, home again, jiggety jig, where I dropped the kids off (they ate sandwiches in the van) and headed out to Walmart for grocery shopping.
I thought it would be great to get all of our “out-of-the-house” stuff done on one day. That was before I actually lived through a Crazy-day. I am exhausted today and it took us a long time to get going this morning. Hopefully, we’ll adjust.
Noah and Jonathan are set to start Tae Kwon Do in another month or so. That means Tuseday and Thursday evenings will be taken up. Question to those of you with multiple children: how do you juggle all the outside activities? This is the first year we’ve done this, and even with limiting them to one activity each, it seems like a lot. I tried to talk Natalie into Tae Kwon Do so we could keep them all together, but she’s had her heart set on dance for as long as I can remember. So we’ll try this for a while and see if it makes me completely insane. Or at least crazier than I already am.
Hi Carrie,
We try to keep “running around” to a minimum but there are times when that is just the way it is. A couple of years ago we had 3 kids on 3 different soccer teams and 1 on a swim team–at the same time! Yikes, that was a busy summer! Right now we are all taking Karate and we are hoping that this will last for a few years. Basically, we let the kids each pick one thing to do (a sport or lesson of some sort)and that is it! It is easier now that Danika and Emily are older and we only have the 3 younger ones doing the “run around”!
BTW–On Wednesdays you might try using the crock-pot for dinners!
October 5th, 2006 at 12:24 pmI can have crazy-day(s) without having to leave the house. Or maybe it’s that we have to leave the house to take Emily to school and then have school and anything else done in time to go back and pick her up. Her being in school has wreaked havoc on my grocery-shopping… I used to be able to run out after we all finished school, leaving her here with the younger ones. Now, there isn’t even time between finishing school and picking her up to get to the store and back with the kids in tow. So I either go with everyone after we pick her up (she hates that) or I have to wait until Saturdays. Ugh.
Then there are the crazy-nights… Monday is single parent night for me, and Halle & Joel have gymnastics that night. Wednesday evenings is the long drive to church; we leave by 4:30 and eat dinner over there before class. Thursday evenings are my WW meeting nights. I don’t want to eat dinner before I go (meeting starts at 6:15), but everyone else is starving by the time I get back. Crazy. OH, and Noah will start flag football practice soon. I don’t know what nights those will be on, but that just adds one more thing into the mix.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:48 pmRandi – that’s a good idea. I’d have to prepare everything the night before, since we get out of the house so early, but that would still make things a lot easier.
Karen – Wow – your life is even crazier than mine!
October 5th, 2006 at 1:19 pmI’m fairly new here so forgive me if I’m asking a dumb question but are the Latin and science classes for you or are you involved in a group homeschool class of some kind? I’ve always wanted to learn Latin and that just seems beyond cool to take a Latin class. I’m jealous.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:08 pmMichelle – no question is a dumb question! We are involved in a group homeschool program. We took a science class last year, which the kids loved, and just started back up. The science teacher mentioned that a Latin teacher was willing to come in after science and teach for an hour if we were interested, so I said yes. I’ve always been interested in the kids learning latin, but haven’t found the time to do it at home. So far just the oldest two are taking it. Jonathan tried it and was bored, so I’m not pushing him. Maye he’ll be ready in a year or two. And Josiah is only 4, so he’s just doing preschool-y type stuff when he feels like it.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:16 pmI would love to take Latin again
That was QUITE the day you had! Whew, you made me tired just reading it!
Our kids are not in extra stuff. Arent we bad? :-p I do want to get them into 4-H though, someday.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:25 pmLawanda – No, I don’t think that’s bad! We resisted the pull until this year, and if it starts to make our family life hectic and unpleasant in anyway, we’ll drop the extra-curriculars. They’re only valuable if they make life more enjoyable, not if they make it more stressful.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:42 pm*Smile*
October 6th, 2006 at 4:53 amThat sounds like many of our days.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:15 amMy oldest daughter is in 4th grade, my son is in half-day Kindergarten in the afternoon, and my youngest daughter is in half-day preschool 3 days a week. So I take my daughter (and carpool kids) to school in the morning, go home/run errands for a bit (and hopefully catch a nap), then take my youngest daughter to school, wait 15 minutes which isn’t really enough time to do any other errands or go home, then take my son to school. Then I either get to run more errands or go work out (the working out rarely happens), then pick up my daughter from preschool and hand her off to my wife who then goes and picks up the other kids from school while I head off to work.
My 2 oldest kids are both in soccer – it was really rough this season as they both had many practices and games on the same day/time but on different fields 15 minutes apart – and if I had to work, Rubi had to figure out how to handle that.
Kev – my oldest (Natalie) is in 4th grade, too. I can’t imagine how hard it would be to work different hours like you and Rubi do. How do you ever see each other?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:18 pm